RABINER N. MADAN

Dr. Rabinder N. Madan, Ph.D. Fellow IEEE, is a Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research. He received his B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. in Physics from the St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and a Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics from Princeton University. In his current position as Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research, he directs and manages programs in Tracking, Networked Sensing, Signal Processing, Information Fusion and Surveillance. In the past he has held faculty positions at the Universities of California, Massachusetts and North Carolina and was a Senior Scientist at Hughes Aircraft Co. His interests and publications are in information sciences, signal processing, communications theory, nonlinear phenomenon, variation and optimization principles, scattering theory and principles of radar. He maintains an Ex-Officio membership in SPTM, interacts with the signal processing community through his participation and support for students at ICASSP and other signal processing related workshops and conferences. In 1989 he was awarded the IETE J. C. Bose Memorial Award for the best paper in Science and Engineering. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He serves as the Editor-in -Chief of the Journal of the Franklin Institute.